Cabinet for sewing-machines, type-writers, &amp;c.



` G. KLIIVIO. CABINET FOR SEWING MACHINES, TYPE WRITERS, &c.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I4. I9I6.

Patented June 12, 1917. 'ESIIEETS-SHEET I.

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G. KLIIVIO. CABINET FOR SEWING MACHINES, TYPE WRITE APPLICATION FILED AUG. I4, 1915I 'Patente-@H1119 12, 1917- 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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GUSTAV KLIMO, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THETHEODOR KUNDTZ COMPANY,

or CLEVELAND, OHIO,

A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

CABINET son sEwING-Mlicrrrnns, TYPE-WRITERS., ac.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented aimera, mit.

Application filed August 14, 1916. Serial No. 114,716.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, GUs'rAv KLIMO, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cabinets for Sewing-lVfachines,,Type-Writers, Sac.; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it pertains to make and use the same. v l

This invention relates to an improved cabinet for sewing machines, typewriters, etc., in which cabinet the stationary portion comprises a horizontally arranged table-top whichhas an opening ,extending vertically therethrough to permit the movement of a y suitably supported sewing machine head,

typewriter or other machine through said opening into position below or above said top, and is provided with a leaf hinged to said top and arranged to swing in a vertical plane, which leaf lies on said top and extends over the hereinbefore mentioned opening, or is arranged horizontally at one end of and in line endw'ise with said top, according as the leaf has been swung into A its extreme position in the one or the other direction.

This invention pertains more especially to a cabinet in which the hereinbefore mentioned platform is carried by a vertically movable slide operatively connected with the aforesaid leaf through the medium of a suitably applied cable.

One object of this invention is to have said cable attached to said slide through the medium of a plate which is readily applied to and removable'from the slide.

Another object is to have the aforesaid platform adequately and inexp'ensivelysupported from said slide. I d.

Another object is to have said platform and the stationary portion of the cabinet provided with simple and inexpensive means for guiding said platform during `,verticalfmovernent of the platform, and to provide simple and inexpensive means for limiting said movement.

With these objects in view, this invention consists in certain features of construction, and combinationsv and relative arrangement of parts, hereinafter described in this'specification, pointed out in the claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation, in central vertical section, of a cabinet embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa vertical section on line 3-3, Fig. 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow. Fig. 4 is a vertical section corresponding with Fig. 1, except that in Fig. 1 the leafv of the table-top is shown as having been actuated outwardly and into line endwise with said topy and the hereinbefore mentioned platform is in itsv extreme upper position, whereas in Fig. 1 said leaf is shown as lying on said top and said platform is shownin its extreme lower position.

Referring to said drawings, A indicates two laterally facing and laterally spaced vertically arranged wooden standards of the stationary portion of a cabinet embodying my invention, which cabinet comprises a horizontally arranged table-top B extending over and resting on said standards and having an opening b extending vertically through said top. Said stationary portion of the cabinet also comprises a vertically arranged wooden baclr C connecting the standards A. together. Preferably the opening b in the top B is arranged forwardly of the back C and between the upper extremities of the standards A. L l

D indicates a swinging leaf which is hinged to the top B byvhinges cl -arranged at the left-hand end of said top and having their axes arranged horizontally and longitudinally of the left-hand edge of said top at the upper surface of said top so that said leaf is arranged to swing in a vertical plane and is in'position at the one or the other side of its axis according as the leaf has been lea or the other direction. Fig. 4 shows said leaf as lying on the top B and extending over the opening in said top. Figs. 1 and 3 show said leaf as having been swung outwardly from the top B and into a position in which it is arranged at the left-hand end of and in line endwise with said top.

E indicates a vertically movable horizontally arranged platform adapted to carry a sewing-machine head, typewriter or other object not shown. In its extreme upper position said platform engages the opening in the top B. Said platform is carried by a vertically movable slide G arranged under the rear portion of the platform and under the rear portion of the top B centrally between the standards A. Preferably the back C is provided at its forward side centrally between the standards A with a vertically arranged bar l0 provided at its forward side with a vertically arranged groove 12, and the slide Gr has a vertically arranged tongue 13 engaging said groove. The slide G is provided with an upwardly and forwardly extending arm 14 engaging the under side of and attached to the forward portion of the platform E, and said slide also has two laterally extending and upwardly diverging arms 15 engaging the under side of and attached to the rear portion of said platform. Said platform rests therefore on said laterally extending arms 14 and on the aforesaid forwardly extending arm 13.

The standards A are provided at their inner sides and centrally between their forward and rearward edges with bars a which extend vertically downwardly from the top edges of said standards and are provided with recesses 16 extending vertically downwardly from the upper extremities of said bars and having lower end walls 17, and the top B extends over the upper ends of said recesses. The platform E is provided at its under side adjacent its side edges with bars 18 extending transversely of the bottom of the platform and forwardly and rearwardly of the opening b in the top B and having portions 19 thereof engaging the recesses 16 in the bars 15 of the standards A, and said portions of the bars 18 of the platform rest at their lower ends on the aforesaid end walls 17 of the recesses 16 in the extreme lower position of the platform. The bars 18 of the platform E have their forward and rearward end-portions abutting against the under side of the top l? 1n the extreme upper position of the platcrm.

A spring I-I is arranged at one side of the slide G and attached at its lower end to said slidey and at its upper end to the back C and acts to retain they platform in its extreme upper position.

By theconstruction and relative arrangement of the parts hereinbefore described it will be observed that the leaf D covers the opening Z) in the top B or is arranged in line endwise with said top according as the leaf has been swung into the one or the other: of its extreme positions.

The slide G is provided in its upper endportion (see Figs. 2 and 3) with a slot 20 which extends into the slide from one side.

of the slide and to the top of the slide, and a plate K extends from above said slide downwardly into said slot and is provided at'its upper end with a forwardly projecting flange`2l. A pin 22 extends from below said flange upwardly loosely through the liange,'and a nut 23 is screwed onto said pin at the under side of said iiange. Asuitably guided metal cable 24 is welded at one end to the upper end of the pin 22 and attached at its other end to the leaf D at a point spaced from the axis of the leaf in the direction of the yfree end of the leaf. Preferably the cable 24 leads from the pin 22 upwardly to and over a guide-sheave 25 arranged with its axis parallel with the axis of the leaf D and supported from a bracket 26 which is secured to the stationary portion of the cabinet in any approved manner and thence said cable leads along and longitudinally of said leaf to the point at which it is attached to the leaf, and said leaf is recessed as yat. 27, and the cable-top B is grooved, as at 28, to accommodate the location of the cable when said leaf is in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The slot 20 (see Fig. 2) is enlarged at its lower end, as at 29, and the plate K is provided at its lower end with a forwardly projecting iiange 30 engaging the forward enlargement of said endof said slot. Obviously by the construction hereinbefore described the plate K is removable edgewise in a horizontal plane.

It lis obvious also that the weight of a sewing-machine head, typewriter or other object (not shown) placed on the platform E lowers said platform against the action of thev spring H during the actuation of the leaf .D from the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 into the position shown in Fig. 4.

What I claim is z- In a cabinet for a sewing machine, typewriter, etc., two laterally spaced standards, a horizontally arranged top resting on said standards and provided between the upper extremities of said standards with an opening extending vertically therethrough, and a vertically movable platform which in its extreme position engages said opening, the aforesaid standards being provided at their inner sides with vertically arranged bars having recesses which extend vertically downwardly from the upper extremities of said bars and which have lower end walls,

the aforesaid top extending over the upper tions abutting against the under side of the ends of said recesses, and the platform beaforesaid top in the extreme upper position ing provided at its under side with bars of the platform. extending transversely of the bottom of the In testimony whereof, I sign the forego- 15 5 platform and having portions thereof ening specification, in the presence of two witgaging said recesses in either extreme posinesses. tion of the platform, said portions of the last-mentioned bars resting on the aforesaid end walls of said recesses in the extreme Witnesses: 10 lower position of the platform, and said B. C. BROWN,

last-mentioned bars having their end-por- EMIL W. KRYZ.

GUSTAV KLIMO.

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